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...Decades later, the Fakir's stomping grounds are again ground zero in a war on terror. American, NATO and Pakistani troops face a hydra-like insurgency led by a string of shadowy extremist leaders who make expert use of the border's treacherous, land mine-riddled terrain, melting into the mountains only to resurface, ever stronger, from their myriad training camps and bases. "I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937," says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with...
...actually do. I used to work for one. I actually understand the critical role which they perform." His private bullying of editors and media proprietors has already come back to haunt him. There's insecurity, too. Rudd is quick to inform people that he knows about life on the land, about bushfires and milking cows. "I grew up in the bush myself," Rudd is fond of reminding rural folk, even though he usually speaks like a cultured diplomat...
...Yorkshire farm was where, from the age of 13, British artist Andy Goldsworthy first learned his trade: how to use a shovel, skin a hare, build a dry-stone wall. It's also where he saw a painting in the lines of a plow on the land, a sculpture in a haystack, and where he realized that the idyllic landscape of rural England is one fashioned by sweat and privilege and kept green by death and dung. So, even if over the last 25 years Goldsworthy, now 50, has traveled far from home (and his fame has spread even further...
...representations of themselves that can be anything from men and women to butterflies. Second Life is not a game so much as it is an “online community” because there is no specific goal or winner. Users are able to interact, create buildings, and buy land on the Second Life globe...
...October 2005, the University owned 352 acres of land in Allston, some of which already houses Harvard Business School and the athletic facilities...